Igneous Rock
Igneous rocks form when _____ cools and hardens.
What is Magma?
Sedimentary rocks are made of _____.
What are Sediments?
Rocks subjected to high heat and _____ change into metamorphic rocks.
What is Pressure?
Rocks exposed to high heat melt into _____.
What is Magma?
The type of scientist that studies the rock cycle or geology in general.
What are Geologists?
What part of Earth's crust should you visit to find igneous rocks?
What are Volcanoes?
Name an abiotic factor that wears rocks down to sediments.
What is wind / water / temperature / ice / gravity?
Which rocks can directly change to metamorphic rocks?
What are igneous and sedimentary?
The weathering and erosion of rocks form _____.
What are Sediments?
Name another biogeochemical cycle.
What is water cycle / carbon cycle / nitrogen cycle / phosphorous cycle?
Name the two basic types of igneous rock.
What are intrusive and extrusive?
Name two of the three basic types of sedimentary rock.
What are clastic, chemical, and/or organic?
Name the two basic types of metamorphic rock.
What are foliated and non-foliated?
_____ compact and cement into _____ rock(s).
What are Sediments, Sedimentary
How does human interference with sedimentary rocks deep beneath earth cause harm to the carbon cycle?
What is "fossil fuels are extracted from sedimentary rocks and are used, which adds too much carbon into the atmosphere"?
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is "magma is molten rock underneath Earth's surface, lava is molten rock flowing on Earth's surface"?
Loose sediments compact and cement into solid rock.
What is Lithification?
Pressure causes flat minerals within a rock to align, which gives the rock a layered structure.
What is Foliation?
All rocks on Earth originate from the _____.
What is Mantle?
Temperature range (in degrees Fahrenheit) for a rock to melt into magma.
What is 1,100 to 2,400?
What type of igneous rock is granite and why? What type of igneous rock is basalt and why?
What is "Granite is an intrusive igneous rock because it is coarse-grained, obsidian is an extrusive igneous rock because it is fine-grained"?
How are sedimentary rocks related to the carbon cycle?
What is "Fossil fuels are found in sedimentary rocks deep underground. Fossil fuels contain a lot of carbon. If fossil fuels are dug up and used, the carbon released can negatively affect carbon cycle. (Coal is found in sedimentary rock deposits. Oil and natural gas are found between sedimentary rock layers.)"?
When can a rock be considered as having changed into a metamorphic rock?
What is "altered mineralogy, altered chemical composition, and altered texture"?
Metamorphic rock melts into __1__, which __2__ into igneous rock, which weathers into __3__, which erode to form __4__, which layer into __5__, which cement into __6__, which is subjected to __7__ to change into metamorphic rock.
What is 1-magma, 2-cools, 3-sediments, 4-depositions, 5-compactions, 6-sedimentary rock, 7-heat & pressure?
Name five properties that help identify rocks. Example: luster
What are color, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, density, fluorescence, radioactivity, magnetism, reactivity, smell, taste...?